Attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell—who sits in jail awaiting trial on charges that she assisted convicted sex offender and super-rich financial advisor Jeffrey Epstein in abusing teenage girls—have filed a motion to stop court records from another case from being made public.
Aside from the potential damage to Maxwell’s current case, there is another fact of relevance to the strenuous effort being made by her attorneys to block the release of the discovery documents.
Approximately 2,000 pages of documents from this case were unsealed on August 9, 2019, and, one day later, Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his jail cell in the Manhattan Correctional Center.
It was similar detailed information that was released in connection with a 2014 Florida filing in which Giuffre revealed that she had been trafficked by Maxwell and Epstein to Prince Andrew, Duke of York, on at least three separate occasions when she was 17 years old.
Other important details of the relationship between the two have established that Maxwell recruited Giuffre while she was a spa assistant at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, owned by now-President Donald Trump, and groomed her for abuse by Epstein and his elite associates.
While Judge Preska’s decision opens the door to the unsealing of hundreds of documents that have been under seal since the 2015 defamation case, she also quickly granted Maxwell’s legal team a stay on the release pending their appeal.
President Donald Trump was asked about Maxwell’s case at a press briefing last week. He replied: “I just wish her well. I’ve met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach and I guess they lived in Palm Beach. But I wish her well, whatever it is".While Trump switched his affiliation from the Republican to the Democratic Party during the years he was known to have had a relationship with Epstein and Maxwell, there are individuals from both political parties and among the elite in American society who also do not wish to have their relationship with Epstein made public or explored.
Ex-Trump advisor Anthony Scaramucci—who no doubt has first-hand knowledge of the filthy and criminal operations of the US ruling elite—had a plausible explanation for Trump’s friendly comment to the jailed Maxwell through the media. Scaramucci tweeted last Wednesday, “She has the goods on him. He is signaling ‘please don’t talk.’”https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/28/maxw-j28.html
